{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Eventapalooza Podcast","title":"Connections, Not Content","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/7698422a\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1124,"description":"Attendees can get content anywhere, so an event is only worth attending if the room gives them something a livestream can't.\nAndrea Bittnerova is a freelance event and content strategist who spent more than a decade producing nonprofit and think tank events, including three full editions of Ideas Lab for the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. She and Tim discuss Ideas Lab's small-session format, why its Chatham House discussions were never recorded, how to repurpose event content across written, audio, and video formats, and where AI helps and doesn't help event organizers.\nWhat You'll Learn\nSmall sessions: Breaking a policy forum into 36 sessions of 20 to 60 people lets every attendee engage instead of watching one panel after another.\nChatham House rule: Recording off-the-record discussions defeats their purpose, because nobody controls where the footage ends up.\nSelective recording: Ideas Lab live-streamed its high-profile plenaries and recorded small sessions only when a project deliverable required it.\nRepurposing layers: Event content can be repurposed in written, audio, and video formats, each serving a different audience.\nFull recordings: Most people want the key messages, so clipped and categorized highlights reach more viewers than full-session uploads.\nProfessional video: Hiring a professional to capture the atmosphere and emotion of an event multiplies the return on that investment.\nAttendee data: Organizers of recurring events can use AI to analyze who attends, how often, and where they come from.\nHuman connection: As AI-generated content spreads, in-person events become more valuable as a source of genuine human connection.\nTime-Stamped Highlights\n(0:00) Cold Open: Why We'll Crave Human Connection\n(0:40) Ten Years in Nonprofit and Think Tank Events\n(1:31) The First Business \"With the Taxes and Everything Else\"\n(1:58) Inside Ideas Lab, Brussels' Flagship Policy Forum\n(2:24) 36 Small Sessions and Four Plenaries\n(3:11) Breaking Out of the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LV8XNOcV7CCYB6z6KUcoCMznPn1-EfoPoaAfm_UD1kI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jNGNm/M2IzMDM0NDQwZGY3/ZjZhMjQxNWVkZTEx/NzAwOC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}